meanness

英

美

n.  下贱卑劣卑鄙；粗野；劣等无价值；无聊；吝啬小气

复数：meannesses　

BNC.21894 / COCA.19328

英英释义

noun

• extreme stinginess
  Synonym:minginessniggardlinessniggardnessparsimonyparsimoniousnesstightnesstightfistednesscloseness
• the quality of being deliberately mean
  Synonym:beastliness

双语例句

• His meanness has become something of a standing joke.
  他的小气已成了经常引人发笑的笑料。
• The sense of meanness died in jon.
  乔恩的自咎感消失了。
• Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded, and in them was neither smallness nor meanness.
  好了，他的结论是自己这对眼睛是诚恳的，其中没有小气和卑劣。
• In his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
  他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。
• Therefore, in a spirit of meanness, rancour, cynicism and misanthropy, let us revive an old tradition by wondering if there is sometimes a little more to philanthropy than compassion and benevolence.
  这样吧，让我们以一种自私吝啬、充满敌意、玩世不恭和愤世嫉俗的精神，重拾一个古老的传统，想想是否慈善事业有时不仅仅与热情和仁爱有关。
• This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
  这个在现实生活和精神生活中同样艰难的规则，诠释着整个伟大和渺小的区别。
• What revolted him most was such meanness.
  最使他反感的是这种卑劣行径。
• If I should turn myself inside out, my rags and meanness would indeed appear.
  要是我把自己的内里翻出来，我的破烂和卑鄙就真要献丑了。
• I tried to find the root cause of this meanness in me.
  我力图找出我这种卑鄙性格的根本原因。
• He watches every penny he spends, which gives him a reputation for meanness.
  他每花一分钟都要考虑再三，这使他获得吝啬的名声。